Dave Eggers News

December 7, 2009
Exclusive: The World of Where the Wild Things Are
It has taken Being John Malkovich and Adaptation director Spike Jonze more than five years to bring Where the Wild Things Are to the big screen. Maurice Sendak, the writer and illustrator of the best-selling children's book (which has sold upward of 20 million copies), identified Jonze as the only man he trusted enough to render his story on film. That story focuses on Max, the boisterous boy in wolf pyjamas who, when sent to his room for bad behaviour, journeys in his imagination and travels to the realm of the Wild Things, a gaggle of hairy monsters who proclaim him king. The book contains only a few hundred words, and yet Jonze has created a full feature film, as wild as the source and as dark and brooding as any ancient fairy tale. The director joins Maurice Sendak and some of his key collaborators to explain exclusively to RT how they shaped the world of Where the Wild Things Are on the big screen. More...

August 19, 2009
Read an Excerpt from Eggers' Wild Things Novelization!
It isn't exactly the same thing as catching an advance screening of the film, but the New Yorker has published an excerpt from Dave Eggers' novelization of "Where the Wild Things Are" -- and it's just a click away. More...

April 22, 2008
Untitled Mendes Comedy Adds Daniels, O'Hara
Jeff Daniels and Catherine O'Hara will star with Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski in Sam Mendes' still-untitled romantic comedy. More...

January 25, 2008
Sam Mendes Making With the Funny for Focus Features
He made his cinematic bones with dramatic films such as American Beauty and Road to Perdition, but director Sam Mendes wasn't born without a funny bone, and he's about to prove it. More...